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Boyle: Between God and Science

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#353253-ZC12
Titel	Boyle: Between God and Science
Auteur	Hunter, Michael
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	0300169310
ISBN13	9780300169317
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker—pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated by alchemy and magic and privately plagued with doubts about faith and conscience, which troubled the rational vision he heralded. This extraordinary work is the first biography of Boyle in a generation, and the culminating achievement of a world-renowned expert on the scientist. Deftly navigating Boyle's voluminous published works as w... (Lees verder)ell as his personal letters and papers, Hunter's complete and intimate account gives us the man rather than myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner. Lively, perceptive, and full of original insights, this is the definitive account of a remarkable man and the changing world in which he lived.
Pagina's	366
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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